# Beric the Briton — Character guide

> Key figures in Beric the Briton by G. A. Henty.

- [Beric](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beric_the_briton_se/characters/beric.md): A British chief's son held hostage in Rome, Beric learns the legions' ways and the arena's savagery before turning both against his captors.
- [Boduoc](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beric_the_briton_se/characters/boduoc.md): Boduoc waits at the forest's edge for Beric and shares his exile, his woad-stained body a walking rebuke to Roman softness. He is fiercely protective and fiercely anti-Roman, and Parta blames him for letting Beric stray 
- [Norbanus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beric_the_briton_se/characters/norbanus.md): Norbanus runs the ludus where Beric trains, and his household becomes the Briton's refuge from palace intrigue. When Lesbia pushes a marriage to the profligate Rufinus Sulla, Norbanus quietly offers Aemilia to Beric inst
- [Pollio](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beric_the_briton_se/characters/pollio.md): Pollio drills recruits in the ludus, a hard hand whose discipline Beric must survive before he can command anyone. His harshness embodies the Roman machine that turns captives into spectacle, and every bruise he deals te
- [Berenice](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beric_the_briton_se/characters/berenice.md): Berenice moves in Rome's elite circles and counts Beric a close friend, but her feelings run warmer than she admits. When he speaks calmly of her possible return home, she storms off hurt, then confesses the quarrel to h
- [Aemilia](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beric_the_briton_se/characters/aemilia.md): Aemilia keeps her father's household and shuns the court's debauchery, which is precisely why Nero covets her presence at his revels. Betrothed to Beric at Norbanus's urging, she becomes the line he will not let the empe
- [Nero](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beric_the_briton_se/characters/nero.md): Nero rules a court of carousals, confiscation, and assassination plots, and after the Piso conspiracy he surrounds himself with guards he can trust — including the straightforward Beric, whose honesty he comes to rely on
- [Suetonius](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beric_the_briton_se/characters/suetonius.md): Suetonius has subdued the British revolt but returns to Rome under a cloud, his victories overshadowed by court politics. Rather than grant terms to the rebels, he pursued them to destruction, a decision Beric recalls wi
- [Boadicea](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beric_the_briton_se/characters/boadicea.md): Boadicea commands the loyalty of fifteen hundred tribesmen who gather at her village for the wolf hunt, and she rules her household with the same stern authority she brings to war. When Beric arrives late, she rebukes hi
- [Caius Muro](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beric_the_briton_se/characters/caius_muro.md): A Roman centurion and early antagonist to Beric.
- [Aska](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beric_the_briton_se/characters/aska.md): An old British chief who first speaks to Beric at the sacred oak.
- [Lupus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beric_the_briton_se/characters/lupus.md): A Briton companion of Beric, later a gladiator.
- [Porus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beric_the_briton_se/characters/porus.md): A gladiator and friend of Beric in the ludus.
- [Ennia](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beric_the_briton_se/characters/ennia.md): A Roman lady involved in court intrigues.
- [Cneius Nepo](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beric_the_briton_se/characters/cneius_nepo.md): A Roman officer and friend to Beric.
- [Lesbia](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beric_the_briton_se/characters/lesbia.md): A Roman woman, possibly a courtesan, associated with Nero's court.
- [Philo](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beric_the_briton_se/characters/philo.md): A Christian in Rome who aids Beric.
- [Parta](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beric_the_briton_se/characters/parta.md): A female slave or attendant in the story.
- [Petronius Turpillianus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beric_the_briton_se/characters/petronius_turpillianus.md): A Roman governor or official in Britain.
- [Phaon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beric_the_briton_se/characters/phaon.md): A freedman of Nero who assists the emperor.
- [Catus Decianus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beric_the_briton_se/characters/catus_decianus.md): Roman procurator in Britain whose actions spark rebellion.

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